President Barack Obama didn’t even get an hour before the hopes of passing his expansive gun control package seemed to get bounced back by Capitol Hill.

Almost immediately after the president finished announcing a plan that centered on a universal background check system and new bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, Senate Democrats said that they would act only narrowly on Obama’s sweeping proposals — and House Speaker John Boehner, whose Republican Conference opposes new restrictions, punted to the Senate, saying the House wouldn’t act before the Senate did.

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Obama, though, said he intended “to use whatever weight this office holds to make them a reality” — and immediately engaged in the fight with the National Rifle Association, which is leading the opposition to new gun restrictions.

This is a moment in which all Americans, including NRA members, should stand up to its pressures, the president said. Without mentioning the NRA by name, Obama turned combative against the nation’s largest pro-gun group. “If parents and teachers, police officers and pastors, if hunters and sportsmen, if responsible gun owners, if Americans of every background stand up and say, enough, we’ve suffered too much pain and cared too much about our children to allow this to continue, then change will come,” he said.

Obama’s urging for Americans to resist the influence of the NRA came just after the White House condemned a new ad from the group contrasting the armed protection that Obama’s two daughters are given to the president’s opposition to putting armed guards in schools.

“Most Americans agree that a president’s children should not be used as pawns in a political fight,” press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement. “But to go so far as to make the safety of the president’s children the subject of an attack ad is repugnant and cowardly.”

The NRA responded in a toned-down statement hours after the president finished speaking. “The NRA will continue to focus on keeping our children safe and securing our schools, fixing our broken mental health system, and prosecuting violent criminals to the fullest extent of the law. We look forward to working with Congress on a bi-partisan basis to find real solutions to protecting America’s most valuable asset – our children.”

Obama’s legislative proposals and executive actions are the first major gun control measures to come from the White House in a generation, and come after a month of quick work by a group led by Vice President Joe Biden tasked with responding to the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.

The president initiated 23 executive actions, including nominating a new leader for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, after he spoke. Together, they’re expected to cost $500 million in fiscal 2014.